Mexican Myths and Legends

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La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)



They say that a crazy weeping woman appears in a street near the

high school of Mexico. She dances and if you look at her you'll go

completely mad. She wanders at night in the streets, vacant lots, and

valleys of Mexico, weeping over the death of her children. "Oh, my

children", she yells, causing even the bravest hearts to shudder.



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The Chupacabra


As dusk falls over the countryside of Northern Mexico, the typical farmer heads home, leaving his cows, horses and goats in their pens. Lurking in the shadows, however, is a hairless, wingless gargoyle with long, razor-sharp teeth: the legendary chupacabra. He has picked out his victim for this night: a fat, slow cow. As the farmer turns out the lights in his home, the chupacabra goes to work. In the morning, the farmer will find nothing but a dried up body in the pen. Since about 1990, legends have grown all over Latin America (particularly Mexico) of the "chupacabra," (whose name translates from the Spanish as "goat-sucker") a nocturnal monster that drinks animal blood.



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